List of hackathons in London, Canada in 2018

SkyWatch is proud to announce the return of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge to the Waterloo region, from October 19 - 21, 2018. This year’s hackathon will attract many of Waterloo’s top tech talent – developers, makers, citizen scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs – who will work non-stop for 48 hours to address NASA-designed challenges. Waterloo joins nearly 200 other cities hosting their own Space Apps Challenges that weekend, for an estimated total of 25,000 global participants, making it the largest hackathon in the Universe. Two winning solutions from the Waterloo challenge will move on to compete with other winners from across the globe, to be judged at NASA headquarters. More info about Space Apps KW 2018 at www.skywatch.co/spaceapps   FAQs HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO ATTEND? This event is completely free to attend. We are also collecting donations for a local charity: oneROOF, should you choose to. oneROOF Youth Services is committed to providing for the safety, support and overall well-being of youth who are experiencing homelessness, and youth who are at-risk of homelessness, aged 12-25, in Waterloo Region. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? Space belong to all. We welcome all and everyone. Whether you are a coder extraordinaire, a rocket scientist, or simply a student with an affinity for space, you have a place here.  WHAT IS THE MINIMUM AGE FOR PARTICIPANTS? There is no minimum age for participation in Space Apps, and many youth and children have participated in past events. We only note that participants under 13 must have a parent or guardian register for them and attend with them.  DO I REGISTER AS AN INDIVIDUAL OR AS A TEAM? Participants will need to register as individuals, not teams. Participants will form project teams at Space Apps events and teams will submit their projects by creating a project page on the day of the hackathon. WHAT IF I'VE NEVER BEEN TO A HACKATHON BEFORE? Welcome! Participants of all skill levels will be there. We’ll have talks, mentors and workshops to help you with your project; hackathons can be a great place to learn new skills in a short amount of time. Just be eager to learn, and excited to meet lots of awesome people. IS THE EVENT LIMITED TO JUST SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT? Absolutely not, Space Apps projects don't have to be apps. We need people with all types of skills to participate! Teams need project managers, designers, artists, educators, writers - anyone who can help advance the cause. You can contribute! Participants in the event will collaborate to build software, open hardware, data visualization, and citizen science platform solutions that contribute to solving global challenges that focus on improving life on earth. In fact, most teams will benefit from having non-programmers working with them. HOW CAN I CONTACT THE ORGANIZER? Please feel free to email us, message us on Twitter, or join our Slack group.  

Healthtech hackers in and around the Greater Toronto Area! You're invited to apply to participate in Hack4Health 4.0! Come and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to design and prototype a solution that helps people suffering from multiple sclerosis and dementia. Pitch your solution to a panel of judges for the chance to win.

On Thursday July 26 at 4:00PM, we are thrilled to welcome Liam Horne, the co-founder of L4 Ventures, Counterfactual, ETHGlobal, Hack The North, et. al. In this Terminal Tech Talk, Liam will discuss how to bring internet scale to blockchains through off-chain scaling techniques called state channels.  This is also your chance to ask Liam how he built world-class initiatives from scratch and how to think about building world-class engineering teams. ABOUT LIAM HORNE: ★  Liam left the University of Waterloo to become the co-founder and CTO of PiinPoint (YC W14). ★  Liam was awarded the $100,000 Peter Thiel Fellowship in 2015 at the age of 19 for his world-class ingenuity.   ★  Liam co-founded Hack The North, arguably the best hackathon in the world and Canada's biggest hackathon.  ★  Liam co-founded ETHWaterloo and turned it into a global movement called ETHGlobal to foster a world-class ecosystem of blockchain developers and entrepreneurs, collectively building the Web 3 world.  ★  Liam co-founded L4 Ventures. L4 is creating the decentralized web, conducting cutting-edge cryptoeconomic research, building core blockchain infrastructure, and helpng projects grow. ★  Liam co-founded Counterfactual, a generalized framework for native state channels integration in Ethereum-based decentralized applications. ★  Liam is a board director at the publicly traded Ether Capital (NEO: ETHC). ABOUT TERMINAL TECH TALK: The Terminal Tech Talk series is committed to bringing our technical communities together by sharing insights and learnings from the best and brightest minds on topics ranging from innovative best practices to culture, personal growth and more.  Questions? Please contact Nabil on Slack @nabil or via email at nabil@terminal.io if you have any questions.

Students aged 18 or more in Southern Ontario, Canada! Do you like to make cool stuff? The Waterloo Engineering Society invites you to participate in EngHack S18! You don't have to be an engineer -- or have hacking/coding experience -- to join in! Come as a team of up to four individuals, or join one at the event! You'll be challenged to create something awesome and innovative? Are you ready for the challenge?